Sentence examples for not so profitable from inspiring English sources
"We milked cows for over 10 years, and farming itself is not so profitable anymore.
The players sitting across the table from them — the health insurers — are not so profitable.
The result was smaller roadways alongside the airport (not so profitable), and larger hotels, retail outlets and cargo-processing sections (more profitable).
"That industry is too low tech -- it would be better to start from zero," he said, adding, "Telecoms, on the basis of cash flow, they're not so profitable, but they have big potential".
"We looked at what areas of an airport are profitable and which are typically not profitable," said Liu Wujun, chief technical officer at the Shanghai Airport Authority and one of the main planners behind Terminal 2. "The areas that tend to be profitable we made as large as possible; the areas not so profitable we made as small as possible".
Other drug companies are also looking to get rid of some sweet but not so profitable divisions.
What about areas of the law that aren't so profitable, or where legal advice costs more than it's worth?
After struggling through not-so-profitable early years, the software company managed to turn a profit in the last two years, seeing its first quarterly profit in 2010.
In Manhattan, a not-so-profitable gas station occupying a parcel of very expensive land will often be bulldozed to make way for a tall building full of lucrative offices or condos.
A decade later Madero, facing a cash crunch as metal prices plummeted, sold off most of Sanluis' not-so-profitable investments in an aluminum company, a majority stake in Woolworth de Mexico, a share in Hyatt Hotels of Mexicobut wisely hung on to an auto parts company Sanluis had bought from the Mexican government in 1988 for about $45 million, including debt.
Thing Six: Small Stakes: While trumpeting its sort-of-profitable exit from American International Group as loudly as possible, the Treasury Department is being more quiet about its not-so-profitable exit from a bunch of smaller banks, the WSJ writes.
